"That's always our excuse, isn't it? The company goes in somewhere and we all stand back and wash our hands. Pretend like we weren't the ones responsible. The company pulls SoyPRO from the Burmese market, and we all stand aside, saying intellectual property disputes aren't our department. But people starve just the same. I honestly don't know how someone like you sleeps at night." Yates, Chapter 1, page 6

"They are Thai. They are all incompetent." Hock Seng, Chapter 1, page 14

"A part of [Emiko] still struggles against it but the rest of her... doesn't have the energy to fight. And then she wonders if she has it backwards, if the part that struggles to maintain her illusions of self-respect is the part intent upon her destruction. If her body, this collection of cells and manipulated DNA- with its own stronger, more practical needs- is actually the survivor: the one with...